Rovers’ various stadium plans over the years have come to no fruition.<\/p>\n
The club were involved in a High Court battle over a deal with Sainsbury’s<\/a> to buy the Mem in 2011, while plans to build a 21,000-seater stadium at the University of West of England were abandoned<\/a> six years later.<\/p>\n A proposed move to a new ground at Bristol’s Fruit Market site close to the city centre was then mentioned as a possible new home for some time and AlSaeed previously told the BBC it was “on the table” when he took over.<\/p>\n However, that move was ruled out in October 2023<\/a>, the aim reverting to improving their current home with AlSaeed saying in February 2025 he was “confident”<\/a> in the plans.<\/p>\n The Kuwaiti owner said the work so far, costing \u00a3420,000 in fees for studies, surveys, architecture design and consultancy, had changed the picture.<\/p>\n As well as issues with traffic control and transport around the Mem, the limited space available behind the stands would make it “extremely difficult” to proceed and increase the capacity without cutting into the parking capacity available.<\/p>\n “I am really taking it seriously and I have spoken about that and our intention, we have always said, is that this club deserves a better infrastructure, a better stadium all the way,” AlSaeed said.<\/p>\n “What we are looking at now is if there is any other way to try to make it a better stadium than what we have, is it worth the money that we’re going to spend to make that improvement, would that be good enough for the club? <\/p>\n “[Those are] All of the questions we are faced with and we are really taking careful study and consultation.”<\/p>\n The proposals also include upgrading the training facilities known as ‘The Quarters’ which AlSaeed said Rovers were continuing to meet the council to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rovers’ various stadium plans over the years have come to no fruition. The club were involved in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-669536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115826998889713016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}